When it comes to the Chen Sheng family, no one dares to neglect.
The judicial systems of the ten countries vary.
In most countries, the county magistrate hears cases at the county level, while the prefect often only reviews the case, and the final decision is made by the state judicial office. If it is a major case, it still needs to be adjudicated by relevant departments such as Dali Temple or the Ministry of Punishment.
In Jingguo, although Jingzhao Yin is equivalent to the prefect of the capital, he is also the chief official of a city. Ordinary cases are handled by the Jingcheng Patrol Court. Once serious cases are involved, and the Dali Yuan has not explicitly taken over, according to the usual practice, Jingzhao Yin will take over. Yin conducted a preliminary trial, and then the Dali Yuan reviewed the case and rejected or recognized Jingzhao Yin's trial results.
Although the defendant was not the entire Chen Sheng family, but just a member of the Chen Sheng family, since someone was dead, the Dali Yuan did not take the initiative to take over, so Jing Zhaoyin could only try the case.
So far, Fang Yun has not completely revolutionized the judicial process, because judicial institutions such as the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Yuan, and Supervisory Yuan are still slowly adapting to new changes, and many aspects need to be done step by step.
Jing Zhaoyin did not dare to make his own decision and sent relevant documents to the relevant ministries and cabinet. One of the documents was placed in front of Fang Yun.
Fang Yun looked through the documents carefully.
As early as many years ago, Chen Ziqian of the Chen Sheng family fell in love with Biyu from a small family, so he made a private marriage for life. However, in the eyes of the Chen Sheng family, an ordinary woman was not even qualified to become Chen Ziqian's concubine, so Chen Ziqian's parents beat the mandarin ducks and paid compensation. He gave the woman five hundred taels of silver.
Five hundred taels of silver is a huge sum of money for a small family, but a small family also has dignity. The woman's father refused to accept the money and went to the Chen family to seek justice. He asked Chen Zigan to go to his ancestral hall to apologize and admit that he was the one who started the chaos. The final abandonment is not the problem of my daughter.
How could the Chen Sheng family care about such a person, so the steward who handled the matter not only refused to apologize, but spread rumors everywhere that the woman had entered a brothel and sold herself, which ruined the woman's honor.
The woman's father was so angry that he attacked the Chen family, clashed with the Chen family's servants, was beaten, and died of serious injuries.
Later, the Chen family tried to clear up relations with the capital and only found the servant to take the blame. They sentenced the servant to three years in prison on the grounds of accidental injury.
Xu Changgeng waited for Fang Yun to finish reading the document and said in a low voice: "Master Prime Minister, if this happens at this moment, I'm afraid someone will cause trouble. Jing Zhaoyin sent a letter to the lower officials, and I want to ask Mr. Prime Minister your true opinion."
Fang Yun threw the document into the wastebasket and said: "Is the Chen family outside the national law or outside the Jingguo? The prime minister has given Jing Zhaoyin ten days. If he cannot be dealt with severely, find someone who can be dealt with severely. Officials who deal with it harshly!”
Xu Changgeng did not leave immediately, but stood there, looking at Fang Yun with pleading eyes, hoping that Fang Yun would think about it again.
"Go down." Fang Yun didn't even raise his eyelids.
Xu Changgeng sighed softly, said goodbye to Fang Yun, and turned to leave.
In the afternoon of that day, Jing Zhaoyin resigned due to illness.
Fang Yun was arbitrary and ordered Jing Zhaoyin to avoid fighting in the face of danger. He rated Jing Zhaoyin poorly and issued a public notice stating that Jing Zhaoyin would never hire this person again.
No one in the cabinet opposed Fang Yun, and the Queen Mother quickly stamped the official document with a jade seal, confirming that he would never be hired.
Then, the Ministry of Personnel followed normal procedures and appointed a new Jing Zhaoyin that day.
Jingzhao Yin is in charge of the capital, but the rank varies in different countries. After the reform of Fang Yun, Jingzhao Yin went from the fourth rank to the third rank, on the same level as the state pastor and the ministers of various ministries.
For any official who is promoted to a fourth-rank official, becoming Jing Zhaoyin is worthy of congratulations. However, no one wants to offend the behemoth of the Chen Sheng family.
No one can offend the current left prime minister, Fang Yun.
As a result, the second Jing Zhaoyin resigned a quarter of an hour after receiving the appointment.
Fang Yun issued a similar document and appointed Jing Zhaoyin again.
The third Jing Zhaoyin also left within an hour after receiving the transfer order.
Within one day, three Jing Zhaoyin resigned one after another, which shocked the entire Jingguo.
Fang Yun was furious and transferred all three officials who had been promoted to important positions in the name of their improper official duties.
These three people happened to be officials who supported the royal family.
Those people were originally watching Fang Yun's jokes, but they couldn't sit still after they discovered that Fang Yun had successively eliminated three members of the royal family.
As a result, a censor came forward to impeach Fang Yun, believing that Fang Yun was the head of a hundred officials and in charge of the staff. It was hard to escape the blame for this situation. He even created his own words, three words a day, to satirize Fang Yun's incompetence.
Fang Yun frankly admitted that he had served as the left prime minister for a short time and failed to discover that the officialdom of Jingguo had been deeply flawed and that he must increase officialdom in the future. He also believed that it was inappropriate to select Jing Zhaoyin from among the officials in the capital, and that Jing Zhaoyin should be promoted from various states.
Everyone realized that Fang Yun actually wanted his people to occupy such an important position, so they desperately wrote a letter to object.
Fang Yun uses retreat to advance and lets the officials recommend a new Jing Zhaoyin tomorrow.
As a result, no one was recommended the next day.
All fools know that nominating anyone now is equivalent to putting them on the fire.
If the Chen Sheng family is dealt with, no one can bear the revenge of the family. This has happened many times in history. The family pleaded guilty, but the chief judge who tried the case eventually left the scene sadly.
If the Chen Sheng family is not dealt with, Fang Yun and Xingdian will never give up.
No one can escape unscathed.
In the end, Fang Yun transferred Dong Wencong from Xiangzhou to the capital to serve as Jing Zhaoyin, while Feng Zimo took over as the prefect of Xiangzhou.
If Sai Zhixue, Zhang Poyue and others are just colleagues who share the same aspirations with Fang Yun, then Dong Wencong and others have been considered the backbone of Fang's party many years ago.
Dong Wencong's appointment as Jing Zhaoyin means that the Fang Party's power has finally taken root in the capital.
The importance of Jing Zhaoyin is far higher than that of other state pastors. However, the officials who opposed Fang Yun did not care and instead took pleasure in his misfortune.
The official position of Jing Zhaoyin was originally very difficult to obtain, because the most powerful people in Jing State gathered in the capital, and if you were not careful, you would be criticized by all the major forces.
What's more, this time it's a case involving the Chen Sheng family.
Everyone thought that after Jing Zhaoyin appointed Dong Wencong, he would use his relationship with the Xingdian and the Legalists to let the Dali Yuan take over the case. However, to everyone's surprise, Dong Wencong announced that he would try it in person.
It stands to reason that as long as the children of aristocratic families are involved, the Holy Court will intervene. This time, the Holy Court not only did not intervene, but the Xingdian handed over the preliminary trial of the case to Jingguo and Dali Temple for review. The Xingdian only retained the basic final trial and closure of the case. right.
Because when it comes to scholars and children of aristocratic families, unless there are special circumstances, only the Palace of Punishment has the final say.
On the first day he took office, Dong Wencong seconded personnel from the Ministry of Punishment, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Justice and the Supervisory Yuan, and used more than half of the manpower of the capital government to investigate the case.
Once a superior officer pays attention to something, the efficiency of the people below him will become extremely efficient.
In just three days, the whole matter was clearly investigated, and the height of the file was more than ten times that of the case file back then.
However, Dong Wencong only tried the case and never made a verdict.
On the ninth day of the woman's beating of the Denwen drum, Fang Yun returned to the spring garden and was visited by someone at night.
Fang Yun was sitting in the study, and the concierge pushed open the door with a purple-robed scholar.